Introduction

Members of group 3 introducing themselves…

… each in their own language

As you can see, our group is awesome. We are three exchange students and two full-degree students. Three Italians, a Belgian and a Dane. No Swiss, but one French-speaking.

We have structured our solution so that everybody has done their own part and then we divided the remaining parts in the group so that everybody could contribute. The work has been managed through Github with limited conflicts.

Group Members

Cristina

My name is Cristina and I come from Milan, Italy where I am studying Business Analytics and Big Data at Politecnico di Milano. Right now I am at HEC in Lausanne as an exchange student within the QTEM master’s network. During this months I will attend the following courses:

Class Time
Programming Tools in Data Science Tueseday 1:15 pm
Computational Tools for Actuaries Thuesday 8:30 am
Conceptual Modelling for Business Analytics Thuesday 1:30 pm
Data Analytics for Decision Making Friday 8:30 am

The things that I am passionate about are:

  • Sports: Volleyball, Skii, Surf, Wakeboard
  • Art: I love reading about art and going to exibitions, expecially about Contemporary Art
  • Music: I listen to Rock, Indie-rock and Electronic music and I love going to concerts and festivals
  • Travel: I like discover new cultures and meet new people

A fun fact about me is that I am super clumsy, I have the ability to drop everything I am holding and to hit everything that is around me. So don’t ask me to hold your phone or to take care of something precious if you don’t want it totally smashed :D

Cristina’s Favourite Quote

“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don???t mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.”

Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Laura

Lavaux Tour

Lavaux Tour

I have different passion: * Reading: I think it is my greatest passion. I like to enter in new worlds and to live new lifes. * Music: I come from a family of musicians. I don’t have a favorite genre, I listen to every type of music. * Travel: I like to discover new cities and countries. Moreover, I found beautiful to visit a city where I book that I read was set, in this way I feel part of the story.

A fun fact about me is that when I travel I found always (always!!) one of the main attraction of the… with a scaffolding that hides it. So my photos are always ruined by the work in progress.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

I am attending the second year of the Master in Management, and this is my timetable for this semester:

Subject Timetable
Managerial Decision Making and Negotiation Tuesday 8.30
Programming Tools in Data Science Tuesday 13.15
Unethical Decision Making Wednesday 8.30
Strategy and Development Modes Wednesday 14.15
Business and Human Rights Thursday 13.15

Emil

My name is Emil and I am on exchange at HEC Lausanne this semester. Originally, I am on my 2nd you of Msc in Business Administration and Information Systems from Copenhagen Business School.

Emil thinking he is super important

Emil thinking he is super important

I generally find it easy to get passionate about vastly different things, but it always comes back to..

  • Football, which allows me to chill with mates, exercise and compete at the same time
  • Politics, which I could read about all day long
  • Travelling, as I love visiting new places. 2018 has brought me to:
    • Denmark (where I live when not on exchange)
    • Singapore
    • Malaysia
    • US
    • Germany
    • Czech Republic
    • Austria
    • Slovakia
    • Hungaria
    • Italy (twice)
    • Norway (tomorrow)
  • Case competitions, business and entrepreneuship

A fun fact about me is that my grandpa hasn’t written an encyclopedia of 18 volumes about the European litterature. Oh, and I don’t drink coffe (what?!).

This is my favorite qoute. You should try to translate it here.

“Verden har brug for flere ydmyge genier. Der er efterhånden for få af os.”

Drillo

Class Time
Power and Leadership Monday 8:30 am
Mergers, Acquuisitions and Corporate Restructurings Monday 1:15 pm
Programming Tools in Data Science Tueseday 1:15 pm
Strategy and Development Modes Wednesday 2:15 pm
Entrepreneurship and Strategy Friday 8:30 am

Louis

Enjoying the Swiss mountains

Enjoying the Swiss mountains

I’ll say yes to anything you offer me to do but I am particularly fond of

  • Theatre, where I can express myself in various ways
  • Running, which keeps me full of energy
  • Classical music
    • Brams
    • Litz
    • Beethoven
  • Tennis, which helps me fulfill my need for competition

I am also very good at learning new languages and therefore enjoy learning new ones. Unfortunately, I am talking about natural languages, my gift doesn’t seem to work as well with programming ones.

A fun fact about me is that my grandpa has written an encyclopedia of 18 volumes about the European litterature.

“Ce que les gens ne peuvent pas comprendre leur fait peur, et ce qui leur fait peur ils veulent le détruire”

Werber, L’Ultime Secret

Class Time
Data Mining Monday 8:30 am
Programming Tools in Data Science Tueseday 1:15 pm
Machine Learning in Business Analytics Wednesday 1:15 pm
Optimization Methods in Business Analytics Friday 3:15 pm

Federico

photo in Rhodes

photo in Rhodes

I dedicate my spare time to some hobbies: * practice sports, like tennis, skiing and swimming * read poems, and sometimes learn them by heart * travelling, preferably by car, since I love driving

dies nihil est. Dum versas te, nox fit. Itaque nihil est melius quam de cubiculo recta in triclinium ire. Vinus mihi in cerebrum abiit.

Petronius<>

Subject Time
Power and Leadership Monday 8.30
Managerial Decision Making and Negotiation Tuesday 8.30
Programming Tools in Data Science Tuesday 13.15
Unethical Decision Making Wednesday 8.30
Strategy and Development Modes Wednesday 14.15

RMarkdown Syntax

  1. Show an example where the chunk option cache = T leads to a misleading answer:
a <- Sys.time() 
print(paste0("Today is the ", a))
[1] "Today is the 2018-10-10 00:12:39"
  1. Simulate 100 random samples from a standard normal distribution using the function rnorm(). Store these 100 values in a vector called x. Then, compute the empirical median, mean and variance of x. Are these results different from 0, 0 and 1 (their respective theoretical values)? Is this result surprising? Justify your answer.
x <- rnorm(n = 100)
median(x)
[1] 0.3075419
mean(x)
[1] 0.2712858
var(x)
[1] 0.9935721
  1. Include the following text in blue: “Vérité dans un temps, erreur dans un autre”, Charles de Montesquieu

“Vérité dans un temps, erreur dans un autre.”, Charles de Montesquieu

  1. Include a “More info” button with hide/unhide functionality.

Knock Knock

Who’s there?

Nana

Nana who?

…

NANA YOUR BUSINESS


  1. Include a color box with some text
summary(cars)
     speed           dist       
 Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
 1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
 Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
 Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
 3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
 Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00

References

Cristina’s Favourite Quote is taken from: Calvino (2016) Werber (2010) Drillo (2010)

Calvino, Italo. 2016. Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Drillo, Egil Olsen. 2010. Det Viktigste Av Alt Uviktig. Aschehoug.

Werber, Bernard. 2010. L’ultime Secret. Albin Michel.